The homepage of the 2,996 project — whereby bloggers pick out an individual victim of 9/11 to memorialize and honor — has been overwhelmed by heavy traffic hacked by Ned Lamont supporters! Oh, the humanity!

Seriously, though, check out the website if/when it comes back online. It’s a great idea, and one I wish I’d discovered earlier; I would have participated. (For an example of the concept, see Michelle Malkin’s post about Giovanna Porras.)

P.S. Malkin also posted this photo montage of — by my count — 1,938 victims of the atrocity:

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